Re: [ft-devel] How to determine if horizontal hinting is happening?

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 6:41 AM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 6:11 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> What I need is a reliable mechanism (across Freetype versions and
>>> fonts) to determine if a font has horizontal hinting applied or not.
>>> It looks like it's something Freetype might need to provide, since
>>> the true answer seems to come from the interaction of flags, fonts,
>>> and engines.
>>>
>>> Could this be something that I can read out of FT_FaceRec?
>>
>> No, it can't, since FT_Load_Glyph's load flags determine that, which
>> comes later than the creation of `FT_Face'.
>>
>
> Could you get this from comparing linearHoriAdvance with advance.x<<10 ?

What if we store the resulting load_flags after all massaging inside
FT_Load_Glyph into the reserved field of FT_GlyphSlot? Would this
work? Sorry, I do not like adding new function interfaces.